Raoul_Luke
I feel a bit lightheaded. Maybe you should drive.
That is not in dispute. By not imposing a complete lock down order and enforcing it, they permitted a large number of us to contract the virus (and die). So what we are arguing over is how many (and who) the government is choosing to mark for "extermination."
So who thinks that is a good idea? The government choosing who lives and who dies (so to speak). The government picking winners and losers. Which, as I observed this morning, extends to workers. I went to the grocery store and I know the clerks pretty well and I feel bad for them - they are showing up and working each day, risking their lives, while the rest of us are basically on a paid vacation. That's profoundly unfair to these working class folks. Same goes for the front line healthcare workers, and the supply chain. As this goes on, these people are going to start resenting the government's "winners" and recriminations will start to appear. Furthermore those of us who are stuck at home under the thumb of these tin pot authoritarians are going to start getting antsy (is that a real term or just something my dad made up to describe me when I was being impatient?). And that will start leading to increasing violent encounters. Depression, suicides, murders, child abuse, theft, vandalism.
Oh, and don't forget to enjoy the decline...
So who thinks that is a good idea? The government choosing who lives and who dies (so to speak). The government picking winners and losers. Which, as I observed this morning, extends to workers. I went to the grocery store and I know the clerks pretty well and I feel bad for them - they are showing up and working each day, risking their lives, while the rest of us are basically on a paid vacation. That's profoundly unfair to these working class folks. Same goes for the front line healthcare workers, and the supply chain. As this goes on, these people are going to start resenting the government's "winners" and recriminations will start to appear. Furthermore those of us who are stuck at home under the thumb of these tin pot authoritarians are going to start getting antsy (is that a real term or just something my dad made up to describe me when I was being impatient?). And that will start leading to increasing violent encounters. Depression, suicides, murders, child abuse, theft, vandalism.
Oh, and don't forget to enjoy the decline...